Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 00:13:00 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: David Goddard <goddard@acm.org> Cc: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@hotmail.com>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Secure Servers (SMTP, POP3, FTP) Message-ID: <3A88DE7C.C7D414D7@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0102121531370.19350-100000@earth.wnm.net> <3A885F40.9C6AD285@acm.org>
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David Goddard wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Dominic Marks wrote: > ... > > Mail Options: > > 1. Qmail - Secure, written for FreeBSD (Qwest?), Fast, Configurable How did you manage to work Qwest into that? It's just qmail, as in queue mail. > > 2. Sendmail - Industry standard, works fine, big user base Lotsa bugs, lots of options you'll never use, lots of code that does god only knows what. > > 3. Postfix - Secure, quite light on system resources, growing support Completely opaque configuration, no useful documentation. I still wonder exactly how this program has such a great reputation, given what an obstinate bitch it is to make it do something useful. > I can't believe no-one's mentioned Exim (http://www.exim.org/) yet - > doddle to configure (particularly things like virtual domains) and as > far as I understand it pretty secure. I spent a while deliberating > between this and Postfix > for my servers but plumped for Exim after a short evaluation. Given > that I couldn't seperate them on the basis of security I went for Exim > on usability. I say install both on a test machine and give them a > whirl - but maybe someone here can offer a petter perspective on the > security comparison... Ditto. I'm still trying to get Postfix to do *anything* with my mail other than throw it away. I've been using qmail (at gunpoint) at work for several months, and have grown to passionately hate it. Too bad Exim is GPL'ed, but that won't make any difference unless you want to ship it to customers. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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